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  1. Katherine Harrison - Wikipedia

    Katherine Harrison was a landowning widow who was subject to a historically notable 17th century witch trial in Wethersfield, Connecticut. [1] Harrison was a servant earlier in her life, …

  2. Connecticut Witch Trials - Women & the American Story

    Both Elizabeth Seager and Katherine Harrison left Connecticut after their trials. Combine this resource with Life Story: Lady Deborah Moody and Life Story: Mary Dyer and explore why and …

  3. Katherine Harrison and the Adoption of Rules of Evidence

    While a single young woman, Katherine Harrison worked as a servant to Captain John Cullick of Hartford. She read a book about fortune telling by the British astrologer William Lilly, and she …

  4. Connecticut’s Witch Trials - Wethersfield Historical Society

    Wethersfield’s last convicted witch, Katherine Harrison, may have been reviled for her rapid ascension to wealth. As a young woman, Harrison was a servant to a prominent family in …

  5. Ten years prior, Katherine Harrison appears in the documentary record for the first time, as the wife of John Harrison, and we can reconstruct only very little of her life before this.5 She did …

  6. woodmemoriallibrary.org

    Mar 24, 2023 · As a young woman before getting married, Katherine Harrison had worked as a servant to a prominent family in Hartford. It was during this time that she claimed to have read …

  7. Victims of the Connecticut Witch Trials

    Katherine Harrison of Wethersfield, convicted of alleged witchcraft, 1668, reprieved Katherine Harrison of Wethersfield was named as a witch during the Hartford Witch-Hunt. She was later …

  8. Westchester County’s Katharine Harrison, Accused Witch

    Oct 23, 2019 · In Europe people were tried for witchcraft throughout the 1700s. Around 1670 in Westchester, NY, there was the Katharine Harrison, accused witch. She had come to America …

  9. Trial of Katherine Harrison | OAH Magazine of History | Oxford …

    Jul 1, 2003 · The 1669 trial of Katherine Harrison of Wethersfield, Connecticut marked a critical moment in the history of witchcraft in New England.

  10. Katherine Harrison - Wikiwand

    Katherine Harrison was a landowning widow who was subject to a historically notable 17th century witch trial in Wethersfield, Connecticut. [1] Harrison was a servant earlier in her life, …